But they can be saved, with some creative planning. "Theaters balance the immersive spectacle of art and technology with the emotional network of a crowd. When we sit in a theater, the art is actually shaped by the location." - Fast Company
"Mark Zuckerberg's empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people. ... Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has caused advertisers to pull spending and power users to shun the platform. It's never felt more plausible that the age of social media might end." - MSN (The Atlantic)
Spend on Australian features reached a record A$786M ($508M) during the period, an increase of 59% on the previous year, even though the overall number of productions declined. - Deadline
"In the years following its release, Hollywood started producing a string of (movies) which, like Baby Jane, provided veteran actresses including Barbara Stanwyck, Tallulah Bankhead, Shelley Winters and Debbie Reynolds with villainous, yet deliriously camp roles within horror that ensured their careers could keep on rolling." - BBC
A minimum viable product for moderation without censorship is for a platform to do exactly the same thing they’re doing now - remove all the same posts, ban all the same accounts - but have an opt-in setting, “see banned posts”. - Astral Codex Ten
"Disney's direct-to-consumer division, which also includes Hulu and ESPN+, on Tuesday reported an operating loss of nearly $1.5 billion, more than doubling its loss of $630 million during the same quarter a year earlier" — even as it added 12.1 million subscribers for a total of 164.2 million. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab have been brainstorming ways of putting deepfakes to good use. Some of these are in healthcare and treatment. - The Conversation
"No matter where you swipe or tap, video is there — a torrent of pixels, fury, and sound that is, if not literally infinite, effectively endless. The quality of our online lives now hinges on how these feeds are ordered and mediated, powers that are largely automated." - The Atlantic
Every year, the Academy tweaks the rules, trying to improve the controversial and oft-criticized process by which the international nominees are selected: But they won’t get it right until the Academy rethinks the flawed logic behind the category. - Variety
The Oscar winner for Slumdog Millionaire said, "As a nation, our two art-forms are theatre, in a middle-class sense, and pop music, because we are extraordinary at it." - The Guardian (UK)
It's not just Game of Thrones, but Line of Duty, The Fall, and more to come. Why? Says one production manager, "Thirty minutes from Belfast you can be on a beach, you can be halfway up a mountain, you can be at any number of locations." - BBC
The "Return to Work" protocol has been extended through January of 2023 with the unions on board, and "other protocols including masking and testing will remain in place, a person close to the matter said. Disney may still require vaccines for some productions." - Los Angeles Times
It's not just the second Knives Out movie. "Film producers are now prepared to risk huge sums on the sort of classic crime capers that were once the preserve of Sunday afternoon television specials." - The Observer (UK)
